She’s back.
Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to beโa college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you need to hear, and by the time she’s done, you’ve likely lost everything.
Kat Roberts has been waiting ten years for the woman who upended her life to return. And now that she has, Kat is determined to be the one to expose her. But as the two women grow closer, Kat’s long-held assumptions begin to crumble, leaving Kat to wonder who Meg’s true target is.
The Lies I Tell is a twisted domestic thriller that dives deep into the psyches and motivations of two women and their unwavering quest to seek justice for the past and rewrite the future.
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Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess to three small children. Her sole possessions comprise a sea chest and a large carpet bag she hangs onto for dear life. She finds a fine old home, its inhabitants proud of their lineage and impeccable reputation, and a small village nearby. It seems an untroubled existence, yet there are portraits missing from the walls, locked rooms, and names excised from the family tree inscribed in the bible. In short order, the children adore her, she becomes indispensible to their father Luther in his laboratory, and her potions are able to restore the sight of granddame Leonora. Soon Asher fits in as if sheโs always been there, but there are creatures that stalk the woods at night, spectres haunt the halls, and Asher is not as much a stranger to the Morwoods as it might at first appear.
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3-The Sea Knows My Name
Fantasy, YA, Pirates
Release Date June 14, 2022
by Laura Brooke Robson
GoodReads give it 4.57 stars out of 5.
Overview from GoodReads
In this seafaring fantasy, a soft-spoken and empathic teen must chart her own course to rescue the ruthless pirate who raised her
If thereโs one thing Thea Fowler has learned from her mother, itโs that the only way for a woman to survive in a manโs world is to make herself strongโinvulnerable, even. Strength, after all, is how Clementine Fowler survived after her world was washed away by ash and lava and became one of the most notorious pirates the world has ever known.
Unfortunately, Thea has inherited none of her motherโs ruthlessness and grit.
After a lifetime of being told she is a disappointment, Thea longs to escape life under her motherโs thumb. And when she falls for a handsome sailor named Bauer, she thinks sheโs found her chance at a new life. But itโs not long before first love leads to first betrayal, and Thea learns that thereโs more than one way to be strong.
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4 The Facemaker
Non-Fiction, History, Science, War
Release Date June 7, 2022
by Lindsey Fitzharris
GoodReads give it 4.57 Stars
Overview found on GoodReads
The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war’s new weaponry, from tanks to shrapnel, enabled slaughter on an industrial scale, and given the nature of trench warfare, thousands of soldiers sustained facial injuries. Medical advances meant that more survived their wounds than ever before, yet disfigured soldiers did not receive the hero’s welcome they deserved.
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5 The Lost Ryu
Release Date June 7, 2022
By Emi Watanabe Cohen
Middle Grade, Fantasy, Dragons
Good Reads rating is 4.61 out of 5 stars
Overview
Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryลซ in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and twenty years later, they’ve become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryลซ, Yuharu, but…
…Kohei has a memory of the big ryลซ. He knows that’s impossible, but still, it’s there, in his mind. In it, he can see his grandpa โ Ojiisan โ gazing up at the big ryลซ with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. When Kohei was little, he dreamed he’d go on a grand quest to bring the big ryลซ back, to get Ojiisan to smile again.
But now, Ojiisan is really, really sick. And Kohei is running out of time.
Kohei needs to find the big ryลซ now, before it’s too late. With the help of Isolde, his new half-Jewish, half-Japanese neighbour; and Isolde’s Yiddish-speaking dragon, Cheshire; he thinks he can do it. Maybe. He doesn’t have a choice.
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6-Molly and the Machine
Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Release Date June 7, 2022
by Eriik Jon Slangerup
GoodReads Rating 4.89 Stars
Overview from GoodReads
Perfect for fans of Stuart Gibbs and James Ponti, this hilarious and poignant middle grade sci-fi adventure set in 1980s Ohio follows a young girl who makes incredible discoveries about family and belonging while chasing a kidnapping robot.
Itโs the summer of 1983, and one by one, the kids of Far Flung Falls are disappearing.
With sheer drop-offs at every turn, the woods behind Molly McQuirterโs house have always been a dangerous placeโeven before something big and metal started lurking in them. But when Mollyโs little brother is snatched up before her eyes, she has no choice but to follow. Sure, Wally tends to ruin everything, and his finger practically lives up his nose, but she isnโt about to let him be abducted by some unknown enemy, especially since their mom ran off to Florida two years ago and their dad, whoโs slowly morphing into a couch potato, wonโt be any help. If Molly wants to protect the family she has left, Wallyโs rescue is going to be up to her. So aided a crew of unusually determined pets, Molly sets off on Pink Lightningโher tricked-out bicycleโon a chase through the hills of southern Ohio.
Finding the robot culprit only creates more questions, however, and when the unlikely mastermind behind the robot is uncovered, a new story begins to unfoldโone of lost love, family bonds, and some seriously weird science.
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